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HER VOTE.^^^,c^^ 



First produced on May 13th, 1909, at Tern/s Theatre, 
London, with the folloi ring Cast : — 

The Girl Miss Eva Moore. 

The Drudge ... ... ... Miss Suzanne Sheldon. 

Thk Clerk Mr. H. V. Esmond. 

Thk P&E8EX4I Time. 



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HER VOTE. 



ScKNE. — Her father^s office, A busy looking room. Large 
iin-itin<i liible c. at right of ivhick sits the old Clerk «t 
v:ork Tlitre is a telephone oJi the t(Mi'. After a moment's 
pause the door h. is ftnng open and the Girl rustles in full 
of intention and determination all over her. The Clerk 
looks tip from his labours and sighs resignedly on seeing 
her. She sits doicn opposite him. 

Girl, (sweetly) Good afternoon, Mr. Furdevv. I hope 
I don't disturb you. 

The Clerk moves important papers from under her pirnsol 
and gold purses, etc., that she lavishlg ifisposf^s on the table. 

Clerk. Not at all, Miss Elizabeth. I'm afraid the lace of 
your parasol has 

Girl, (moving her parasol) Teh! 1 didn't see the inkpot 
was open. Is my father in? 

Clerk. No, Miss Elizabeth. 

Girl. Then 1 want the telephone. 

Clerk. Your father could get no tele])hone message now, 
Miss Elizabeth — he's on his way to Leeds. 

Girl. I am not telephoning to my father. 

Clekk. (apologising) I beg your pardon. 

(Slie takes the telepho7ie, and speaks) 
Girl. I want ].'32 Central — please, (a pause) Number 
engaged — not at all. How annoying they are, it's only 
because girls are at the other end. If it were a >> an ! Oh, 
yes ; 123 Central 1 No, no. 132 Central. VVliich is it ? 
Oh 1 don't know now — you've put me oft' with your talking — 
wait a minute — I'll get the bouk. (to Clerk) It's afcsuid 
how tiiey hustle one. 

Clerk. (^Hiite, Miss, (he hands her the tdephone bvok) 
Girl. Th,an1< you so much, (she runs thrumili the pages 
hurriedhj) W. W. VV. which end of the book is W '( (tl,e 
telr phone rings — she drops book and seirxs it) Yes, what ? 
— Oh, good, (slie laughs and listens) How are you ? — dont 
be silly, Reggie. Im in a serious mood. You >^elc just 
writing to me were you, how funny, great news have 
you ? So have I. I've got two seats for the meeting to- 
night—what meeting 1 The meeting the suffragettes ! 1 



4 HER VOTl. 

What did yoii say ? Eates — no nothinsj about rates, only in- 
directly. You said 7\its did you 1 Well if you say things like 
that again you'll make me angry — yes, angry ! You don't 
realise that it's a movement, (she gives an enormous import- 
ance to the word) Yes, a movement. A great movement ! 
and it's of Vital Importance to our Sex. Yes, I said sex. 
what ? You think we're losing sight of it — what the move- 
ment ? No, the sex ! Well i don't mean to lose sight of the 
movement anyway — it's most vital to us — (she stamps) — it 
doesn't so much matter about the sex — vpe've all gut that 
— we haven't got the other. But it's coining— and what I 
want to say is I've got these tickets and you must take me to 
the meeting to-night. What ? You're .sending me a note ? 
Tell me now. Can't talk it through the 'phone? How 
funny you men are. (she puts phone dovmfor a minute a')id 
turns sweetly to Clerk) I hope I'm not disturbing you, Mr. 
Honeydew. 

Clerk, (grimly) Not in the least, Miss Elizabeth. 
(•^'he grips the 'p^hune again) 

Girl. No, Reggie, I didn't leave the wire — j'our news is 
more serious than votes. Reggie, don't be silly — how could 
it be. Oh, yes —we'll get them — and you know we ought to 
have them because you told me so only last Thursday in 
Lady CandrifFs conservatory. No, it wasn't because the 
waltz music made you dreamy. No ! I won't be chained to 
a seat— and what ? No ! I won't write my views in any- 
body's blood, (then vehemently stamping) No, No, No — 
what I say is — there are a million more of us than there are 
of you, and we are not going to be left in the cold. 
No I never said a vote would warm me — but what I say and 
what all we women say is — something has got to be done. 
You can't come round for the moment I No, I don't want 
you — I've joined the movement. 

Tlte door is opened cautiously and the Drudge looks in. 
The Clerk snaps at her. 

Clerk. Well? 

The Drudge rubs her nose with her apron and nod» 
towards the Girl, who turns sweetly to the Clerk. 

Girl. It's all right, Mr. Dewdrop. I told her to follow 
me up — she is in "the movement." (then, to the Druuoe, 
most graciously) Won't you sit on that very hard sofa ? (the 
Dkui>ge accepts the invitaliou.) (the telephone rings again) 
No, no, I didn't leave the wire, 'out a lady dropped in who 
entirely feels with me and I merely spoke to her for a 
momei.t. 

The Dbudgb is heard to murmer huskily» 



HEE VOTE. D 

DntiDGE, I sweeps out these buildin's — I works 'ard, I 
want a vote. 

Girl, (aouthinyly) It's all right — it's coming . . . and oh ! 
then won't it be splendid !! 

Drudge, (sadlif) I 'ankers for it. 

Girl. It will make such a difference to us all. Oh, you've 
no idea! I, oh, our status will be so much improved. 

Drudge. My status 'as been a-weighing on me for weeks 
past. 

Girl. So it has on all our sex. 

Drudge. I took carbodinate of soda for mine (very 
depressed) — it didn't move it. 

Girl, (a little aciitated) No, no ! Our status isn't inside 
us— it's — as it were — outside — apart, as it were — politics 
and personal dignity— er — sex perogatives— I mean preoga- 
tives — {she makes up her mind not to wrestle with the wurd 
and continues as if no accident had happened. Talking to 
the Drudge) Oh, you must go to some of the meetings — 
it's no good their saying, " Men are men, and women are 
women" because we know better than that, don't we? 
We want to be up and doing, don't we ? 

Drud(;e. I'm alius up an' doin'. 

Girl. Yes, but I mean in a noble way — not — not 
practical things but — noble things — things one can't explain 
even to oneself — you know what I mean. 

Drudge, {sadly smuothiny her apron — with a far away 
look in her eyes) Yus, it's the vote.. 

Girl. Oh, I never thought I sliould feel so enthusiastic 
about anything as I feel about this — to — to— expand one's 
mind — to — -to open one's arms and grasp the intangible, as 
it were — it gives us women new life, {she tunis vehetnently to 
the Drudge) Look at the area, (puts back 'phone) 
The Drudge couies back to facts a little hurt. 

Drudge. Eh ! 

Girl, {apnlogetically) I don't mean the area you mean— 
I'm so sorry — I mean the — oh, the — well you know what I 
mean. I think its tine ! 

Drudge. The last area I scrubbed 

Girl. Not that area, I told you. (the7i a little reproach- 
fully) I'm afraid you're not being very intelligent — the 
Political Area — where we shall rule. 

Clkrk. Will you vote Tariff Reform, Miss Elizabeth ? 

Girl. Of course — it s a tine thing. 

Ci.EiiK. You know all the facts ? 

Girl, (inclined to he truthful — hesitates a little) Er — I 
don't think I kn iw quit.! all. 

Cleux. I sec -you aro content to follow a male leader. 



6 HER VOTE. 

Gtrl. There's nothing else to follow, (the CliBRK returns 
ppacejully to his labours. The Gikl te<iards him for a in.o)nent 
wilh stispiciori—agnin the telephont riii i.s— seizing it) That 
yuu Resjfgie 1 Yes. Oh, yes. My la ly friend is still here 
— wliHt i (a pause while shi listens) Wiiivt an extraordinary 
request -read her your note <)\ifc loud — well I never. But 
— ri^ht — I do promise to. No, it isn't here yet — then y ou 
can't come round yourself. No— Oh. Reggie, yes 1 siv^ar 
I'll read it out loud and then telepho le you straig it — ught 
— right — but Reggie, dear old man, it's no use your talking, 
we want the vote, and what we iivint we get. Heggie, I didn't 
mean to call you "dear old man" — it slipped out because 
the telephone was between us. {she suddenhi ripples) 
l)h, Reggie, shut up. (then in a /lo^ow irhispe,) Duii't keep 
talking about her as "my lady friend," she isn't a friend 
really, she — she's only an <tcquaintance. I met her on the 
oflice stairs — she is interested in the movement that's all — 
you can't hear? Well, I can't shout - she's srtiii',' quite 
close, (she turns sweeily to the Dhuihje irhfi sho^vs siiniptoinsof 
dozing) You are interested in the movement, aren't you ? 

DllUDGE. YUS. 

Girl. I knew you were, {she returns to the telepihone) 
What ? I'll ask her. Mr. Wellington wants to know if you 
aie married — 

Drudge. Not up to now. 

Girl. And how many children you've got bat of course 
— hm ! passing on to next cage (.s^*' rings o't' vioJentlg and 
n-osses to the Drudge) Mr. Wellington has sent me a letter 
which he says I am to read to you. 

Drudge. Life's so lonely — carnt 'e give me a vote ? I 
sort of feel I could 'ug it. 

Girl, {getting really quite disappointed in her) I dcm't 
think you quite realise what the vijte meits to a woman. 

Clerk, {luokiiuj up) What dues it, Miss Elizabeth? 

Gikl. It means so much that I couldn t possibly explain 
it. 

The Clerk sighs and (cgain resittnes his labours. The 
ojfice bell rings, and he /v'sw and goes out 

Girl, (muses) What can he mean by sending me tl is 
note. Y\\ —{she gues to telephone, irresolute) ±^o, I won't — yes, 
1 will, {and she rin^s) 132 Central, {she gets it) Yes, yes, 
Reggie? Oh, I beg your pardon, Mr. Farrow, is that you ? 
— Oh yes, my father is quite well, thank you. I thought I 
was talking to Mr. Wellingri.n. Yes, father says you were 
quite right about the drains — "yielding the line to a 
younger man " — notatal', 1 merely warned to — {shortly) Oh, 
tli.tt you Reggie i No, I'm not fussing, {the Clebk comes in 



HEK VOTE. / 

vHh n(1e) Oh, your note's just (ome — T — (a kync/ paitse) Cut 
oH. ('.-^/ie jiiil.s do'i H the tfh'phone Itt. disgust and takes note from 
the Clerk then turns sweetly to the Drl'DGe) Don't you hate 
the telephone 1 He s at one end and I'm at the other, it's — 
ugh : : ! 

DRunoE. I never 'ad a 'e. 

Girl. I've got to read this aloud to j'ou —you don't mind, 
I firoiuised. (the Drudge u-earvy acquiesces, and tlie Girl 
opens the note and begins) " Elizabt-l.h," that's me. No 
''dear" or anything, ju^t "Elizabeth," shortly, how odd. 
"Tell your lady friend to get hold of a good fellow and 
marry him." 

Drudge, {hrightens consideiriblg) 'Ear, 'ear ! 

(tIrl. " Tell her to go home and have a tine large family 
and bring 'em up to be defen<lers of the Empire." 

Drudge. 'E talks sense — I'm with 'im. 

Girl. " As for you, Elizabeth " — (she turns and beams on 
the DiiCDGE) He's talking about me now 

Drudge. 'E do chat, don't 'e ? 

Girl. " I have been made junior partner this morning, 
Bo we can be married in a fortnight." (she sqveals a little 
squeal, then controls herself au<! i mes readin'j, hurriedly) 
'' I can't take you to the mei-t.i -w-nijilu, I'm too busy, 
but I could spend the entire eveiuug wah you if >ou are 
likely to be at home— we can be marrird Thursday week. 
Telephone reply. Reginald \^'elllngLon." {sJitJIis to Ihe 
telefhove) l.'^S Central, please. Hullo ! Hullo ! who's that? 
—I want Mr. Wellington.— He's out 1 No, no ! Who are 
you ? — " His clerk." " He's gone to the bar for abaiidwich." 
I thought they went there for a brief— follow him— find 
him out wherever he is— tell hiui I shall be at home — at 
home — my gracious me (loudly) 1 shall be at /tome the intiie 
evening. Who am 1% Oh, what a fool the man is- all 
ct-rksaie — T beg your pardon, Mr. Faldew. 

Clerk. Don't mention it, Misa Elizabeth. 
{She wheels back to the telephone) 

Girl. I— I, Miss Nanson shall be at lu)me the entire 
evening— tell him at once I shall be at home all the 
evenint,'— got that — good ! {stce replaces the telephone and sinks 
into chair exhausted) Oh dear, the telephone makes me get 
1 of all over, (fhrre is a pawe—itfU'i- irjtidi. .-he turns streetUj 
tc the Clerk) I hope I haven't int^eirupted you, Mr. Mildew. 

Clerk. Not at all 

Girl. But father do'n't minil my using it when he 
isn't here and it is useful, isn't n>. Tnursday week, isn't it 
wondeful 'i {she wakes out of her dream ani rustles around) 



° HEK VOTE. 

Where did T put m ' gold purse, {and she jn-oceeds to ransack 
t:.e fab'e) 

Dhupgr. (to herself) Go 'onie, 'ave a large family and de- 
fend tlie Empire. 

Clerk, {yrimly) Better finish the oflice stairs first, 
Baker! 

Dredge, (rising) Yus, sir ! (and she wakes out of her 
dreatii) 

GirI. (has collected- h> r belonginf/s) Here's my purse— (.s/ie 
ivi-ns rippling ivith inirard joy, and sees the Drudge) Gh, I'm 
B< I sorry — I forgot you for the monienc— buti hadn't for- 
g( tten you really — I'm so glad we've had this talk. Oh ! and 
(nith great graciousness) you can have my ticket for the meet- 
ii g to-night— I'm afraid I shall be too busy to use it now— 
but yoii'll use it won't you? You won't back out — it's so 
cowardly to back out — if you women don't stjck together, 
your cause will never advance — you must show a bold front 
or nothing will be accomplished. 

Drudg£. Ain't j/ou goin' to the meetin' ? 

Girl. Oh no ! Not now — T — er — circumstances have arisen 
— I'd sooner you had my ticket — I'm going to have a little 
chat with Reggie, (and she ripples ont of the office) 

Clerk, (grimly) Let's get back to our work. 

Drudge, (looking dreamily at the meeting ticket) Yus, sir. 



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354 Fruits of the Wine Cup 
35t> Drunkard's Warning 
356 Temperance toctor 
351 Aunt Dinah 

355 Widovf Freeheart 
369 Frou Frou 

360 Long Strike 

VOL. XLVI. 

361 Larcers 
36'i Lu' ille 

363 Randall's Thumb 

364 Wicked World 

365 Two Orphans 

366 Colleen Bawn 

367 'Twixt Axe and Crown 

368 Lady ClaDcarthy 



VOL. XLVII. 

369 Saratoga 

370 Never Too Late to MenO 

371 Lily of France 

372 Led Astray 

373 Henry V 

374 Unequal Match 

i76 May or DoUy't Delusion 
(76 Allatoona 

VOL. XLVIII. 
377 Enoch Arden 
3"!< Under the Gas Light 
379 Daniel Rochat 
Caste 

381 School 

382 Home 

383 David Garriok 
3s4 Ours 

VOL. XLIX- 

385 Social Glas! 

386 Daniel Druoe 

387 Two Roses 

388 Adrienne 

389 The Beil» 

390 Uncle 

391 Courtship 

392 Not Such a rool 



VOL. L. 

393 Fine Feathers 

394 Prompter's Brf 
396 Iron Master 
396 Engaged 

.597 Pygmalion it 

398 Leah 

399 Scrap of Paper 

400 Lost in Londot 
VOL. 1,1. 

401 Octoroon 

402 Confederate Spy 

403 Mariner's Return ' 

404 Ruined by Drink 

405 Dreams 

406 M. P. 

407 War 

408 Birth 
VOL. LIL 

409 Nightingale 

410 Progress 

411 Play 

412 Midnight Charge 

413 Confidential Clerk 

414 Snowball 

415 Our Regimeni. 

416 Married for Money 
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Articles Needed by Amateurs 

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Burlesmie" Dramas 

Burnt Cork 

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Carnival of Authors 

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Irish Plays 
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Juvenile Plavs 
Make-Up Book 
Make-Up Boi 
Mock Trial 

Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works 
New Plays 



New Recitation Books 

Nigger Jokes and Stamp Speeches 

Parlor Magic 

Parlor Pantomimes 

Pieces of Pleasantry 

Poems for Recitations 

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Round Games 

Scenery 

Scriptural and Historical Dramas 

Sensation Dramas 

Serio-Comic Dramas 

Shadow Pantomimes 

Shakespeare's Plays for Amateurs 

Sliakespeare's Plays 

Stanley's Dwarfs 

Spirit Gum 

Tableaux Vivants 

Tslma Actor's Art 

Temperance Plays 

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VOL. XLI. 

321 Adventures of a Love 
325 ' est Child [Letter 

323 Court Cards 

324 Cox and Box 

325 J'ortv Winks 

326 Wonderful Woman 
827 (.urious Case 

328 Tweedleton's Tail Coat 



VOL. XLII. 

329 As Like as Two Peas 

330 Presumptive Evidence 

331 Happy Band 

332 Pinafore 

333 Mock Trial 

334 My Uncle's Will 

335 Happv Pail- 

336 My Turn Next 



VOL. XLIII. 

337 Sunset 

338 For Half a Million 

339 C ible Car 

340 Early Bird 
Ml Alumni Play 

342 Show of Hands 

343 Barbara 

344 Who's Who 



VOL. XLrv. 

345 Who's To Win Him 

346 Which is Which 

347 Cup of Tea 

34S Sarah's Young Man 

349 Hearts 

350 In Honor Bound [Law 

351 Freezing a Mother-in- 

352 My Lord in Livery 



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roh. I. 

t Ikt WA Attorney 
■ kostt at till 3waB 
t How to P»y tbt R«n» 
4 The L«au of » LcTW 
f The Dead Shot 
( Hit Last f.cg> 
1 The InTi..bTe Prino* 
t The SolJen Farmer 

VOL. II. 
a Prl4< of the Market 
l» Ueed Ue 
Jl The Irlih Tutor 
It The Barrack Ruom 

13 Luke the Lat'orer 

14 Beauty and the Beael 

15 St. Patrick's Eve 
U Captain of the Watoh 

VOL. III. 
IT The Secret fl 

II White Hone of tlie Pep- 
)!l The Jacobite 
ta The Bottle 
tl Bex and Cox 
H Bamboeiling 
S3 Widow's Victim 
M Robert Maeaira 

VOL. IT. 
9i Secret Serrte* 
i% Omnlbns 
97 Irlih Lion 
•)i Maid of Crotsw 
J» The Old Guard 

30 Railing the Win4 
Jl Slather and Cruher 
8i Naral Engagement* 

VOL. V. 

31 Cockniei in Callfornle 
34 Who Speaks First 

'ib Bombatt6s Furiose 

31 Macbeth Tiavestie 

37 Irish Ambassitdor 

it Delicate Qround 

3* The Weathercock [Qgld 

40 AU that Glitters le l!<ot 

VOL. VI. 

41 Grlmshan', Bag^haw and 

Sradshaw 
it Rough Diamond 
48 Bloomer Costume 

14 Two BoTinycastles 
45 Bom to Oood Luck 

16 KiS! in the Dark [jurer 
47 'Twould PuMle • Coo- 
ts Kill or Cure 

VOL. VII. 
4$ Box and Cox Married and 
60 St. ipid [Settled 

51 Qo-t« bed Tom 
5? The Lawyers 

53 Jack Sheppard 

54 The *^oodIes 

55 The ] fobcap 

56 Ladles Beware 

VOL. VUI. 
m Morning Call 
iS Poppiag the Questlot 
H Deaf as a Post 
•0 New Foottnan 
(1 Pleasant Nolghber 
OJ Paddy the Piper 
US Brian O'LInn 
•4 Irish Auaranee 

rou Ut 

15 Temptation 
6« Paddy Carer 
47 Tws Gregerlei 
(I King Charm init 
8» Pe-ca-hon-tas 

7» Glockmaker's Hat 
71 Married Rake 
It Lere m^d Murder 

VOL. X. 
79 JreUad and A-^erlea 
V4 rrtttp Piece of Businesa 
1% Irish Breom-oiaker 
71 Te Paris sa(> Baek far 

I^Te Pounds 
n Tkat Blessed Bitkjr 
T8 0«r 9»\ 
U Smse Gvttag* 
to ITenag Widew 



VOL. XI. 
II 0'Flanni(an and the Fal- 
ls Irish Post fries 
13 My Neighbor'* Wife 

84 Irish Tiger 

85 P. P., or Man and Tiger 
§6 To Oblfge Benson 

87 State Secrets 
S8 Irish Yankee 

VOL. XII. 

89 A Good Fellow 

90 Cherry and Fair 8tu 

91 Gale Breeiely 
98 Our Jemlmr 

93 Miller's Maid 

94 Awkward ArrWiil 

95 Crossing the Line 
91 Conjugal Leesoa 

VOL. XIII. 
»7 My Wife's Mirror 

98 Life in New York 

99 Middy Ashore 

100 Crown Prince 

101 Two Queens 

102 Thumping Legacy 

103 Unfinished G.atlaiau 

104 House Dog 
VOL. XIV, 

lOB The Demon Lover 
Matrimony 

107 Inaud Out of Place 

108 I Dine with My Mother 

105 Ki-a-wa-th» 

110 Andv Blake 

111 Love" in '7» JtUi 
113 Romance under DilBcul- 

VOL. XV. 

113 One Coat fur i Suit* 

114 A Decided Cas* 

115 Daughter [noritv 

116 No; or, the Glorious Ml- 

117 Coroner's InquisltioQ 

118 Love in Humble Life 

119 Family Jars 
MO Perionatlon 

VOL. XVI. 
121 Children In the \Vo9d 
Hi Winning a Husband 
1S3 Day After the Fair 
124 Maks Your Will* 
1S5 Rendezvous 

128 My Wife's Husband 

7 Monsieur Tonson 

8 lilustrions Stranger 

VOL. xvri. 

129 Mischief-Making [Mines 

130 .\ Live Woman la the 
IHl The Cors.ilr 

32 Shylock 

133 Spoiled ChIM 

134 Evil Eye 

136 Nothing toJVurse 

'"" Wanted » Widow | 

VOL. XVIJl. 

137 Lottery Ticket 

135 Fortune's Frolio 
139 Is he Jealous! 
l-iO Married Bachelor 
141 Husband at Sight 

Irishman in Loudon 

143 Aniina! Mnjnetism 

144 Highways and By-W ays 
VOL. XIX. 

Ua Columbus 

148 Harlequin Bluebeard 

147 Ladies at Home 

148 Phenomenon in a Sfiioc% 

Frock 

1 49 Comedy and Tragedy 

150 Opposite i^eighSors 

151 Dutchman's Ghost 
153 Persecuted Outcbman 

VOL. XX. 
Its Muiard Ball 
jS* Great Tragic Revival 

155 High Low Jack & Game 

156 A Gentleman from Ire- 

157 Tom and Jerrv [land 

158 VilHge Lawyer 
16^ Captain's not A-mise 

ateurs and Actors 



VOL. XXL 
181 PrsDaetseo [ual 

169 A FaseiBatiug Individ- 
1C3 Mrs. Caudle 
184 Shakespeare's Dreaa 
ISi Neptune's Defeat 
1S( Lady ef Bedohaqibar 

167 Take Care ef Little 

168 Irish Widow [Charley 

VOL. XXH. 
1«» Yankee Fedaler 
176 HIran Hireout 
171 Double-Bedded RMoa 
173 The Drana Defended 

1 73 Vermeiit Wool Dealer 

1 74 Ebeneur Venture [ter 

175 Principles from Charae- 

176 Lady of the Lake (Trav) 

VOL. xxia. 

177 Mad Don 

178 Barney tbe Baren 

179 Swiss Swains 

110 Bachelor's Bedronm 
181 A Roland for an Oliver 
1«t More Blunders than One 

183 Dumb Belle 

184 Umerlck Boy 

VOL. XXIV. 

185 Nature and Phlloiophj 
184 Teddy the Tiler 

187 Spectre Bridegroon* 

188 Matleo Falcone 

189 Jenny Lind 

190 Two Bnuard* 

191 Happy M.lu 
193 Betsy Baker 

VOL. XXT. 

193 No. 1 Round the Comer 

194 Teddy Roe 

196 Object of Interest 

196 My Fellow Clerk 

197 Bengal Tirer 

198 Laughing Hvena 

199 The Victor Vanquished 
•JOe Our Wife 

VOL. XXVL 
201 Mv Husband's Mirror 
203 Yankee Laud 

203 Norah Creina 

204 Good for Nothing 

205 The First N ight 

206 The Eton Boy 

907 Wandering Minstrel 
308 Wanted, 1000 Milliner* 

VOL. XXVIL 
30» Poor Pllcoddy 
21C The Mummy [Olessrs 

21 1 Don't ForgH your Opera 

212 Love in Livery 

213 Anthony and Cleopatra 

214 Trying It On 

215 Stnge Struck Yankee 

216 Young Wife 4 Old Um- 

brella 

VOL. xxvm. 

217 Crinoline 

218 A Fsuiiiy Falling 

219 Adopted Child 

220 Turned Heads 

291 A Match in the Dark 
323 Advice to Husbands 
253 Siamese Twins 
224 Sent to the Tower 
VOL. XXIX. 
925 Somebndv Else 
2 '6 Ladles' tiattle 
27 Art .-vf Acting 

228 The Ladv of the Lions 

229 The Riehts "f Man 
310 Mv Husoand's Ghost 
281 Two Can Play at that 

Game 

232 Fighting bv Proxy 
VOL. 5CXX. 

288 Unprotected Female 
984 Pet of the Petticoats 
2S6 Fortv and Fifty [book 
236 Who Stole the Pockol- 

37 Mv Son Diana [sion 

S.18 Unwarr')ntable Tnt-u- 

289 Mr. and M'S. White 
240 A Quiet Family 



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T05» XXXL 

241 Cool 6*8 Cucumber 
343 Sudden Thought* 

243 Jumbo Jum 

244 A Blight«d Being 

245 Little Toddlekins 

246 A Lover bv Proxy fPall 
947 Maid with' tbe Milking 
348 Perplexing Predicament 

VOL. XXXIL. 
949 Dr. DUworth 
SS8 Out to Nurse 
391 A Lucky Hit 

989 The Dowager 

968 Met^mora (BurWsque) 
954 Dreams of Delusien 
355 The Shaker Lover* 

358 Tisklish Timss 

VOL. XXXIU. 
«S7 SO Minutes with a Tiger 
958 Miralda ; or. the Justice 
ef Tacon 

359 A Seldier's Courtship 
960 Servauts bv Legacy 
981 Dving for Love 

969 Alarming SacriSce 

368 Valet de Shsm 
l64Nlokolas xVicklebr 

VOL. XXXIV. 
968 The Last of tbe Pigtails 
366 King Rene's Daughter 
S67 Th. Grotto Nymph 
3*8 A Devilish Good Joke 

369 A Twice Told Tale 

370 Pas de Fascination 
*71 Revolutionary Soldier 

973 A Man Without a Head 

VOL. XXXV. 
373 The Olio, Part 1 

974 The Olio, Part t 

275 The Olio, Part 3 [t«r 

276 The Trumpeter's Daugb. 
977 Seeing Warren 

278 Green MouBtaio Boy 

279 That Nose 

280 Tom Neddy's Secret 

VOL. XXXVL 
981 Shocking EvenU 

983 A Regular Fix 

383 Dick Tnrpin 

384 Young Scamp 
985 Young Actress 

984 Call at No. 1— T 

987 One Touch of Kainn 
918 Two B'hoys 

VOL. XXXTIt. 
389 All the World's « Stag* 

990 Quash, or Nigger Pr*c> 

291 Turn Him Out [U«e 

292 Pretty Girls of etillbasar 
393 Angel of the Attic 

994 O'C'cnmstancesalterCaae* 
•2th Kettv O'Sheal 
'.'98 A Supper in Dixie 
VOL. XXXVIU. 
9»T Ici on Parle Francals 
298 Who Killed Cock Robin 
399 Declaration of Independ* 
300 Heads or Tails [enoe 
801 Obstinate Family 
309 Mv Aunt 
303 That Rascal Pat 
804 Don Paddy d. Baaan 

VOL. XXXIX. [tur* 
f,ni Too Much for Good Na- 

306 Cure for the FidgeU 

307 Jack's the Ijid 

308 Mnch Ado A bout Nothing 

309 Artful Dodeer 

310 Winning Hai.ird 

311 Day's Fishing 
19 Did von e 

VOL 

313 An Irishman's Maneuver 

314 Cousin Fannie 
'Tis the Darkest Hour be- 

216 Masquerade [fore Dawik 
.117 Crowding the S«son 
31«,Good Night's Rest 
319 Man with the CarpekHaa 
S20 Terrible Tinker 



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